Highmore, Ben, 1961-, The art of brutalism , [2017]
- Title(s):
The art of brutalism : rescuing hope from catastrophe in 1950s Britain / Ben Highmore.
- Published/Created:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
- Physical Description:
- 297 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryN6768 .H55 2017 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/13209866
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-292) and index.
- Subject Terms:
- Architecture and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.Architecture and society.Art and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.Art and society.Art, British -- 20th century.Art, British.Brutalism (Architecture)Brutalism (Architecture) -- Great Britain.Great Britain.
- Form/Genre:
- History.
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- Introduction: brutalism: style, substance, sensibility
- Parallel of life and art: brutalism's locus classicus
- Building on ruins: East End ethnography and vernacular urbanism
- Acid etched walls: Hammer Prints and domestic brutalism
- Brutalist bodies and cybernetic time
- Domestic anxiety and ideal homes: brutalism at the Ideal Home Exhibition
- Epilogue: the aftermath of brutalism.